Richard Sherman
So, it's time to weigh in on Seattle Seahawks Cornerback Richard Sherman.
Evidently he's the best.
So he says.
Like a lot of other people I watched him go off on his opponent after he knocked a ball away to save the game on Sunday.
The reporter, Erin Andrews, looked thoroughly disgusted with him as he shouted in her ear that he's the greatest and that his opponent was "sorry."
(She's a good-looking girl, by the way, but definitely no Kathy Fazzolari)
Sherman later cleared it up by saying the receiver is "mediocre" and when you come at the "best" with a "mediocre" player...that's what you get.
Of course I have a problem with him. At first glance I thought he was am uneducated gang member.
Was I prejudging him?
Well, no...that's what he put forth. That's what he was acting like.
Yet what surprised me about it was all the people who had his back in the days that followed. Turns out he's a pretty good story.
He rocketed out of poverty and the streets of Compton. He's an intelligent guy. He finished way up there in his high school class rankings. He went to Stanford and also did well. He makes a lot of money and is supposedly one of the best...as he told us.
But does that mean he gets to denigrate his opponent?
Yet those that defend him say that he was emotional and just vocalized that emotion immediately after making the big play.
He also did it an hour later at the podium. So that kind of ruins that argument.
There are others who say his move is calculated so that everyone talks about him. He's right on that account...
...everyone has an opinion.
And here's mine.
He's everything wrong with professional sports.
A big-mouth, arrogant, disrespectful, sorry excuse of a performer.
He should be suspended for patting the guy on the rear and doing the choke symbol.
He should publicly apologize for acting like a spoiled rotten baby.
Evidently he apologized to his team for taking away some of their thunder of winning.
(If you ask me he should also thank the refs).
Yet, in that very game one of his opponents had his leg shattered.
A number of others left the field with possible head trauma.
Everyone was playing hard.
And Richard Sherman shat all over all of it proclaiming he's the best.
Maybe he is the best pass-slapper-down in all the universe.
But he's also a clown.
And he's the reason I'm hoping Denver wins...and that the winning touchdown is thrown right at him...and he screws it up.
And then I hope someone pats him on the rump.
And shows him the choke sign.
Evidently he's the best.
So he says.
Like a lot of other people I watched him go off on his opponent after he knocked a ball away to save the game on Sunday.
The reporter, Erin Andrews, looked thoroughly disgusted with him as he shouted in her ear that he's the greatest and that his opponent was "sorry."
(She's a good-looking girl, by the way, but definitely no Kathy Fazzolari)
Sherman later cleared it up by saying the receiver is "mediocre" and when you come at the "best" with a "mediocre" player...that's what you get.
Of course I have a problem with him. At first glance I thought he was am uneducated gang member.
Was I prejudging him?
Well, no...that's what he put forth. That's what he was acting like.
Yet what surprised me about it was all the people who had his back in the days that followed. Turns out he's a pretty good story.
He rocketed out of poverty and the streets of Compton. He's an intelligent guy. He finished way up there in his high school class rankings. He went to Stanford and also did well. He makes a lot of money and is supposedly one of the best...as he told us.
But does that mean he gets to denigrate his opponent?
Yet those that defend him say that he was emotional and just vocalized that emotion immediately after making the big play.
He also did it an hour later at the podium. So that kind of ruins that argument.
There are others who say his move is calculated so that everyone talks about him. He's right on that account...
...everyone has an opinion.
And here's mine.
He's everything wrong with professional sports.
A big-mouth, arrogant, disrespectful, sorry excuse of a performer.
He should be suspended for patting the guy on the rear and doing the choke symbol.
He should publicly apologize for acting like a spoiled rotten baby.
Evidently he apologized to his team for taking away some of their thunder of winning.
(If you ask me he should also thank the refs).
Yet, in that very game one of his opponents had his leg shattered.
A number of others left the field with possible head trauma.
Everyone was playing hard.
And Richard Sherman shat all over all of it proclaiming he's the best.
Maybe he is the best pass-slapper-down in all the universe.
But he's also a clown.
And he's the reason I'm hoping Denver wins...and that the winning touchdown is thrown right at him...and he screws it up.
And then I hope someone pats him on the rump.
And shows him the choke sign.
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